This article first appeared in The Nation (September 6, 2022) The challenges freelance journalists face are no secret: payments delayed for months (sometimes failing to arrive at all), editors ghosting, while long and often uncompensated hours and isolation are all part of the job. Freelancers also pay for their own work expenses and health care […]
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The Nation and the National Writers Union Reach an Agreement
Authors Object to the Internet Archive’s Book Piracy
Reaffirming our longstanding objections to the Internet Archive’s distribution of unauthorized digital copies of books in which our work has been published, the NWU has joined almost two dozen national and international organizations of writers, photographers, and visual artists in a friend of the court brief in opposition to the Internet Archive’s book-scanning and so-called […]
Media Workers Plan “Freelance Isn’t Free” Campaign for IL
Chicago, IL – July 21: Today, about 20 freelance media workers gathered for a happy hour to learn more about the Freelance Isn’t Free law. This was the first in-person event hosted in Chicago by the Freelance Solidarity Project (FSP), the Digital Media division of NWU. Writers, editors, critics, fact-checkers, data reporters and production assistants […]
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